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Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer and environmental activist.
He was a member of the Ogoni, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. As president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental damage associated with the operations of multinational oil companies, including Shell and British Petroleum.... On November 10, 1995, Saro-Wiwa and eight other MOSOP leaders were executed (hanged) by the Nigerian military government of General Sani Abacha.
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Indiana native, 1921-1999. Author of books, magazine stories, and screenplays.
During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he hosted a late night show on radio station WOR in New York City.
Perhaps best known for writing the screenplay for the popular movie "A Christmas Story".
Entertainment author wrote books on Walt Disney, animation, Pooh Bear, trains, C.S Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, collaboration with John Howe, as wells as the tie in books to the Lord of the Rings movie series.
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Born in Norwich, Connecticut on September 1, 1791 Lydia Howard Huntley published her first piece, "Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse" with the help of Daniel Wadsworth in Hartford. She married Charles Sigourney in 1819.
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Rachel Simon wrote a book of short stories called "Little Nightmares, Little Dreams" which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1990. She also wrote the book, "Riding The Bus With My Sister," which was made into a TV movie.
Dodie (Dorothy Gladys) Smith - British author, born in Lancashire, England on May 3,1896, died She November 1990, age 94.
In 1948, while living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Dodie completed her first novel, 'I Capture the Castle', inspired by her homesickness for England. In 1956 she wrote
'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' - later made into two Disney films.
Also known as C.L. Anthony.
Lisa Jane Smith is an author of many young adult novels based on vampires, witches, werewolves, and other paranormal beings and experiences. This category features information on the author LJS and her many novels.
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Leslie Stella is author of a novel called Fat Bald Jeff the co-publisher and editor of Lumpen, a national magazine with a circulation of 20,000. Her articles and stories have been published in numerous national publications and anthologized by Henry Holt in their The Book of Zines, compiled by Chip Rowe from Playboy.
Short story writer and novelist, who wrote about the new settlers living and struggling on the midwestern prairies. She won her first writing prizes at 14 and 17 years of age.
Born Bess Gevra Streeter in 1881 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
She married Charles Sweetzer Aldrich in 1906. After several years, the couple moved to Elmwood, Nebraska.
The writer's professional career became profitable, when a short story was bought by the Ladies Home Journal in 1911.
Her husband, Charles Aldrich, died in 1925. The widow worked diligently to support her children and herself.
She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Nebraska
in 1934.
Bess Streeter Aldrich moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1945.
The author died in 1954 and is buried in Elmwood cemetery.
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Covers all aspects of the life and work of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish-born author, poet, essayist, political pamphleteer, and priest, best known for the satirical tale Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (otherwise known as Gulliver's Travel). Swift is considered both English and Irish (and sometimes "Anglo-Irish"), both of his parents born in England and many of his aspirations focused on England, he spent most of his life in Ireland and took up Irish causes in his writing and is still considered a hero and patriot in Ireland. Swift was born during the Restoration era and came into his own during the Augustan period, both part of the long 18th century. Some of his closest friends and correspondents included Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot.